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A friend of mine has just inherited a website to overhaul. It needs to be
migrated from a Windows server to a *nix one first. Trouble is, the previous
webmaster has used mixed case file names and links and been very
inconsistent about it.

Consequently there will be a lot of broken links amongst the 20,000 (yes
this is a static html to CMS conversion project) files.

Writing a perl script to just rename files to entirely lower case might not
be so hard but fixing the links in the HTML would be a bit tougher.

Surely someone else has met this problem before and written a bit of code to
do this?

If anyone has a neat solution for this that does not involve manually
renaming and editing files it would be absolutely fabulous to be told of it.

Cheers

Deryck

Deryck wrote:

> A friend of mine has just inherited a website to overhaul. It needs to be
> migrated from a Windows server to a *nix one first. Trouble is, the previous
> webmaster has used mixed case file names and links and been very
> inconsistent about it.

Look into mod_speling.

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Deryck wrote:
> the previous webmaster
> has used mixed case file names and links and been very
> inconsistent about it.
>
> Consequently there will be a lot of broken links amongst
> the 20,000 (yes this is a static html to CMS conversion
> project) files.

If you're going to the trouble of a whole CMS, then creating a wee tiny script with a single regular expression shouldn't be too big
a problem, surely?

"Toby Inkster" <> wrote in message
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> Deryck wrote:
>
>> A friend of mine has just inherited a website to overhaul. It needs to be
>> migrated from a Windows server to a *nix one first. Trouble is, the
>> previous
>> webmaster has used mixed case file names and links and been very
>> inconsistent about it.
>
> Look into mod_speling.
>
Thanks Toby. We were just starting to look at the possibility of doing
something with apache (like apache calling a perl script which we'd write).
This looks like it might save us the job.

Cheers mate.

Deryck